[lbo-talk] "preaching to the choir"

[Liza Featherstone]

I think some people will decide not to vote for Bush, and some people will
be politicized in a more radical way, and both of those things are good. I
think that's actually the strength of the film - it addresses people at a
lot of different levels, so for some people the revelation will be that Bush
is an elitist pig, and for some it will be that the Democratic Party stands
for almost nothing (like the scene in which no Senator supports the black
Congresspeople from Florida, and a couple other moments when Daschle et al
look pretty bad) and for some it will be the larger points about the class
system in this country, for others the footage and analysis of the war. I
think it will bring a lot of things into mainstream public discussion that
have been confined to spaces like this listserv. That's about all a movie
can do. I can't think of a piece of recent political propaganda that has
accomplished more than that.

Liza 


> From: Chuck0 <chuck at mutualaid.org>
> Organization: Infoshop News
> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2004 14:12:17 -0500
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] "preaching to the choir"
> 
> Liza Featherstone wrote:
> 
>> I just love how people who write for these marginal echo-chamber
>> publications keep accusing Moore, whose movie is selling out in malls across
>> the country, of "preaching to the choir!" If I'd ever overheard folks in
>> malls and steakhouses or even hipster bars in Brooklyn -- all places I've
>> now heard F911 discussed -- discussing Counterpunch or the Progressive, I
>> might be a little less derisive of this line of "critique."
>> 
> 
> True, more "average" people are seeing this movie, but the folks gushing
> over it are mostly the usual suspects. This movie will probably
> radicalize a few more people, but what kind of long term change does
> this mean? Are we talking about people "seeing the light" and deciding
> to vote for the left wing of the Republican Party, or will this film
> radicalize people to reject electoral politics in order to work for
> direct action in their communities?
> 
> Chuck0
> 
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